From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
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Loading a selection from a channel - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
Loading a selection from a channel
- [Narrator] Before you can use an alpha channel, you have to put it in play, which is to say you have to deploy it either as a layer mask as we saw in an earlier movie, or as a selection outline. Which is why I'm going to show you how to load alpha channels and selection outlines inside this movie. Let's say that I want to convert the eyes channel right here inside the channels panel, do a selection outline. We saw in a previous movie how you can go up to the select menu and choose the "load selection" command, but that does take a few steps. You first have to choose the command and then you have to set options inside a dialogue box and then you have to click "okay". There's a couple of much easier ways to work. One is to click on the eyes layer to make it active. Again, here inside the channels panel, and then drop down to this icon right here. The one that reads, "Load channel as selection," and click on it. That's going to convert that specific channel to a selection outline…
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The alpha channel is home to the mask1m 34s
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The origin of the alpha channel3m 48s
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How masks work7m 32s
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Saving a selection as a layer mask6m 6s
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Creating an alpha channel5m 44s
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The Save Selection as Channel icon7m 51s
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Loading a selection from a channel6m 31s
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Loading a selection from a layer5m 5s
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Loading a selection from a different image6m 14s
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Sweetening the final composition4m 55s
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